Olga Tinti

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Natalie Tinti is a fourth grader living in Southern California. With her passion and talent of illustrating, she has won many awards for her excellence. The most recent of which is the Spring 2010 Pinnacle Achievement Award, for her self-illustrated book, "Sewing a Friendship," as judged by the North American Bookdealers Exchange for superior work by a young author. Back in 2004, as a five-year-old, Natalie won first place for the poster contest at the city Annual Artists Event. That same year, she achieved first place for the Visual Arts Primary Division at her school. In 2007, her art piece was placed in the Promenade Mall at the Youth Art Exhibition hosted by the Temecula Valley Art Council. Recently, Natalie's book, Sewing a Friendship, was awarded a Silver Medal in the 2009 award contest hosted by the nationally recognized Readers Favorite Book Reviews. In addition, Miss Tinti received a certificate of achievement and was recognized as an honor student at her elementary school. read more » Currently, Natalie is promoting her school's theme "Kindness is Cool" by writing gratitude letters to fellow students in response to their acts of kindness. Through these efforts Natalie stresses the importance of friendships and how students should persevere in being nice to everyone. Natalie wrote this book about rival girls who became wonderful friends, to empower children to use their talents and imagination to focus on the importance and power of true friendships. Natalie believes friendships are an important part of our lives that can be created when we have the courage to include others. Creating friendships is fun and is our way to be the part of the Universe!